To celebrate the coming new year, Wednesday’s Google Doodle features some of Google’s top search topics from 2014. The World Cup, the Rosetta Space Mission, India’s Mars Orbiter, the ALS Ice Bucket challenge, and even the now-defunct mobile game Flappy Birds all appear in the animation.
Google is also highlighting the most-searched topics of the last year.
Here are trending search terms from 2014:
Trending people:
Trending global news topics:
And here is Google’s year-end video:
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